On May 28, 2008, at 7:30 AM, Kyle Kaplan wrote:
> I haven’t done much exploring with libraries, but I know there’s a
> lot out there. I was curious as to what everyone’s favorite is, or
> at the most, top 3.

Anthony Palomba skrev:
> Some libraries that are very useful…
>
> Ejies library
> http://www.e–j.com/sphpblog/
+1! Some of the ejies are absolutely essential! My set wouldn’t be the
same without the vdb, for instance.

A ton of people really like the Lobjects. I would say that, although
technically not a library, bonk~, pitch~, fiddle~ are reaaaally useful
for a lot of msp applications.

Copy the PeRColate_UB folder AND the PeRColate_support folder into
your Max support folder (./Cycling’74).
Copy the PeRColate_help folder into the max-help folder of your Max
distribution.
Copy the PeRColate_overview.pat and percolate.jpg files into your
‘extras’ folder.

I can open the overview patch and the help files but none of the
objects seem to work. I’m using Max 5.0.2

Miller’s fiddle~/bonk~ pair get used a lot around here. Fiddle~ more than bonk~.

Tristan’s modified pitch recognition implementation, and all his analysis~ tools, are also seen a lot in my patches.

I occasionally borrow from RTC and St.ools, although usually I modify abstractions to suit a particular task at hand. But that’s what abstractions are there for.

Of course, Litter Power gets used all the time… for noise sources, for random numbers, for mutation, and the range mapping utilities are…, well, I made the range mapping utilites super flexible because there wasn’t anything else as flexible as I needed. The sigma family of arithmetic operators have been very handy… being able to collapse 15 [+] objects into a single box can be very convenient.

iCE also gets used… I’m not a tracker person by birth and musically my head is miles away from most tracker-style music, but I’ve found the tracking approach to sequencing useful in some of my most avantgarde stuff. So there.

FTM has some fundamental differences to the pure Max world in terms of how messages are processed and is arguably less approachable than pure Max. I understand that you get alot more control and can do some good CPU optimisations once you understand how it works. You can accomplish complex calculations with a single FTM message box that would take many many Max objects with all their inherent communication CPU overhead.

Gabor is nice because the control data is sample accurate, and they have top class DSP algorithms that are really modular and flexible.

If you work with sensors then mnm can really simplify many things.

The learning curve is pretty steep and the documentation is somewhat neglected although there is a decent number of tutorials and examples. It also seems to be constantly evolving and improving so if you haven’t checked it out in a while then maybe take a look.

Quote: ComfortableInClouds wrote on Wed, 28 May 2008 16:30
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> I haven’t done much exploring with libraries, but I know there’s a lot out there. I was curious as to what everyone’s favorite is, or at the most, top 3.